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It was rocking?



I should think it was! And what a racket it made, too!



It isn’t true!



It was all swinging



It wasn’t.



But we tell you the earth was tottering



And I say it wasn’t!



Then go and sleep it off.



I won’t, and it wasn’t rocking. The earth? Ha, ha! why should the earth be rocking? Ha, ha! it wasn’t rocking. The earth? Ha, ha! it was me who was tottering. As soon as I’ve had a drop to drink, everything swings around me.



Well, but we tell you the earth was rocking



But it wasn’t. It was me who was drunk